[DOCS-3222] Comment on: "manual/tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes.txt" Created: 19/Apr/14 Updated: 11/Jan/17 Resolved: 27/Jul/16 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component/s: | manual |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | 01112017-cleanup |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Minor - P4 |
| Reporter: | Docs Collector User (Inactive) | Assignee: | Kay Kim (Inactive) |
| Resolution: | Won't Fix | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | collector-298ba4e7, geo | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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Mongo Shell 2.6 Mac OS X 10.9 Location: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes/ |
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| Days since reply: | 7 years, 29 weeks ago |
| Description |
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The distance multiplier seems to be incorrectly documented (at least in the example). To get results in miles I had to use .000252323 as the distance multiplier which is (1/radius of earth in miles), as against the documented 3959 (actual radius of earth in miles = 3963.1676) |
| Comments |
| Comment by Emily Hall [ 27/Jul/16 ] |
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Closed for housekeeping on 7/27/2016 by Emily Hall. |